James May - Man Lab - How not to wire a plug.

I thought the whole program was dull and stupid. I shan't be watching again.

In message , Michael Chare writes

It all seemed a bit aimed at the 8 out of 10, or hairdressers as I call them

mean to say, even I knew that most bombs had anti-tamper fuses

Should be perfectly obvious that red is going to be hot, and green earth. Doesn't leave much choice for the neutral.

I could have lived with the new colours if they'd made blue be hot, a much more logical choice than brown.

you needed to watch it to work that out?

tim

Yes, he did say words to that effect, but only in the course of demonstrating the futility of using poor aide memoirs for wire is which.

In message , tim.... writes

Though I rather like the idea ii this article

of a club where they have tools, you go have a pint and take a along a diy project to work or or whatever.

In message , Michael Chare writes

Also when he showed the cable he had prepared all three wires seemed to be the same length. Normally the live would be the shortest, then the neutral slightly longer and then the earth the longest so that if the cord grip fails and the cable gets pulled it fails safe.

The bomb was interesting too, if there was a zus-40 below the type 17 it should have detonated when he removed the type 17 rather than 10 seconds later.

There again who expects TV to get things right?

Funnily enough, there are moves to set up a 'hackerspace' in this area. Not dissimilar, although a bit more geeky...

That I doubt, most bombs had fuses that went off straight away. There wasn't much point in an anti-tamper fuse on such a device. Maybe you meant mines and time delayed bombs, they probably did have anti-tamper fuses.

In message , Bill writes

All a bit Gok Wan really

In message , "dennis@home" writes

Really, dennis?

So why did they go through the dramatic bit and explanation at the end to show that they did?

F*ck, you're a retard

You never watched that TV series 'Danger UXB' did you SFB's?

Me to. Blue is the 'electric' colour to me. Neutral should be magnolia :-)

In message , "dennis@home" writes

Time delay was to cause disruption by exploding when people had returned from the shelters and by denying the area to them, once they knew the bomb was there. Much more disruptive than the ones that just went bang and that was the end of it.

Anti handling was there to kill those that attempted to defuse them so that the above disruption could continue unhindered.

As it is near to Nov 11th maybe a time to remember these guys?

Even the basic fuses had a variable time delay to make them adaptable for different tasks, plus also to increase the general disruption they caused to the smooth operation of a city in general. (plus an added benefit of acting as an anti ATO personnel device).

Start here:

You have to hand it to our Dennis, embarrassment is unknown. What the devil was his dogs name?

Depends on your background and culture to an extent... many countries use black for live, and not all associate red with danger.

Blue (along with yellow and red) was live in the old ones...

In article , geoff writes

He'll be telling us next that he works for the bomb squad.

In article , Tim Streater writes

Indeed. Think of the old 3-phase wiring colours, red/yellow/blue phases with a black neutral, simple and logical, and the new colours - black/black/brown with a blue neutral.

I had to smile, then take a photo, when I saw this: